Rush Limbaugh Closes First Hour With Dead Air — Rush Limbaugh closed the first hour of his radio show on his flagship station, WABC, with 1:03 of dead air Monday. — From WABC's online feed of the final commercial break of the first hour: — While advertisers have fled Limbaugh's show since …

Rush Scrubs ‘Slut’ Comment, Demand for Fluke Sex Tapes — RushLimbaugh.com appears to have removed parts of his radio transcripts from February 29 and March 1 in which he called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and demanded a sex tape as a thank you to taxpayers for subsidizing her birth control.

Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers, March 8 — At least 50 advertisers have reportedly dropped their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show in the wake of his misogynistic attacks on Sandra Fluke. — Here are his March 8 advertisers, in the order they appeared on WABC, the flagship station for Limbaugh's show.

It's Always A Conspiracy: Derrick Bell Edition — Yesterday, the Breitbart empire stepped up to the plate, called their shot, swung, missed, hit themselves in the face with the bat, then took a triumphant trot around the bases as spectators looked on with piteous and mocking wonder.

Mitt Romney's media charm offensive — BOSTON — It's the worst-kept secret of the 2012 campaign: The candidate who does the least public media-bashing — Mitt Romney — has the worst relationship of all with the press. — But as Romney seeks to nail down the GOP nomination and cement …

New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media — The newest owner of The New Republic magazine is Chris Hughes, a new-media guru who co-founded Facebook and helped to run the online organizing machine for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. — Mr. Hughes's purchase of a majority stake …

Romney Calls Southern Primaries “An Away Game” — Lowering expectations for a rough stretch, he tells an Alabama radio station he hopes to pick up delegates in Birmingham — even if he can't win the state. — Mitt Romney admitted Thursday that he might not be the most natural fit …

Gallup: Unemployment now up over 9% — The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the official unemployment report for the month of February, but we have two previews this week to use as a gauge. First, the ADP report predicts a net growth of 216,000 jobs in the private sector …

How a $1,000 test could destroy the health-insurance industry — The New York Times reports that the cost of sequencing an individual genome will soon be less than $1,000. That's not nothing, but given what most health care costs, it's not much. And it means that an individual mandate — or something much like it — is inevitable.

Ron Paul's pointless Internet presidency — Ron Paul has about as many votes in this year's GOP primaries as he has Facebook fans - is his fierce online following that much less relevant than it appears? — Four years ago, the shrewdest presidential candidates used YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and a dash of Twitter.

The Unchained Woman — What used to be a normal family life is now available only to the affluent. — Susanna Mancini, a 27-year-old lawyer, sent her boyfriend a photo of herself wearing a swimsuit and sunglasses. “Too bad you can't see my eyes,” she wrote him. “I am so proud of my tough yuppie stare!”

Ignorance Is Strength — One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

Mitt: Pay for Your Own Damn College! — And get off my lawn while you're at it. — Earlier this week, a pretty interesting and telling exchange took place at a Mitt Romney town hall meeting. A student asked Romney what he would do to make college more affordable for students who struggle to pay for it.

MF Global Still Set to Pay Bonuses — Executives Helping Trustee in Wake of Firm's Collapse Could Get Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars — Three top executives of MF Global Holdings Ltd. when it collapsed could get bonuses of as much as several hundred thousand dollars each under a plan …

Pat Robertson Says Marijuana Use Should be Legal — Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.

U.S. adds Vatican to money-laundering ‘concern’ list — (Reuters) - The Vatican has for the first time appeared on the State Department's list of money-laundering centers but the tiny city-state is not rated as a high-risk country. — The 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report …

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